Scientific collaboration: social networks, wiki and Google Wave
The idea of scientific cooperation on the Web is not something new, because the Network itself was created as a tool for scientists to communicate. But never in the past decades has this process happened so rapidly as in recent years, with the development of social media and Web 2.0-style collaboration tools, writes Canadian IT journalist Mathew Ingram. He lists a whole range of new-generation services designed specifically for scientists.
For example, the online service Mendeley for comparing and analyzing bibliographic data in scientific papers. You upload a document in PDF format, the program analyzes it, extracts the entire bibliography, and finds all matches with existing records in the database. Scientists liked the project: the monthly audience of the service has already exceeded 70,000 people, as the developers said in an interview with the BBC.
The scientific community uses both wiki-based engines and blogs. For example, Project Polymath , a service for collaborating on complex math problems, was done this way. The founders of Project Polymath spoke about the principles of Open Source in collective research work in an interview with LinuxInsider.
Or here's another wiki site: the Bioinformatics Organization 's bioinformatics community project. Since its creation in 1998, 27,000 researchers from around the world have registered with this organization, and the site is the center of the entire community, where they publish questions, models, experiments, discoveries related to computational biology. This is a kind of social network of scientists in this field.
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If that site resembles a social network, then the scientific community has its LinkedIn: a project called ResearchGate , this is a serious social network where you can track the links between the scientific works of various authors in related disciplines.
“Communication between scientists accelerates the spread of new knowledge. Science is cooperation, and scientific social networks help and improve such cooperation, ”says ResearchGate, which already has 180,000 registered users and aims to build something called Science 2.0.
Now scientists are thinking about how to improve collaboration with the help of new tools such as Google Wave. In their opinion, the main force of “Waves” is in automation, so that scientific documents for keywords will automatically “be sucked into” thematic waves, which will greatly facilitate the search for materials in a particular area and stimulate communication among specialists.
How do Russian scientists communicate?
For example, the online service Mendeley for comparing and analyzing bibliographic data in scientific papers. You upload a document in PDF format, the program analyzes it, extracts the entire bibliography, and finds all matches with existing records in the database. Scientists liked the project: the monthly audience of the service has already exceeded 70,000 people, as the developers said in an interview with the BBC.
The scientific community uses both wiki-based engines and blogs. For example, Project Polymath , a service for collaborating on complex math problems, was done this way. The founders of Project Polymath spoke about the principles of Open Source in collective research work in an interview with LinuxInsider.
Or here's another wiki site: the Bioinformatics Organization 's bioinformatics community project. Since its creation in 1998, 27,000 researchers from around the world have registered with this organization, and the site is the center of the entire community, where they publish questions, models, experiments, discoveries related to computational biology. This is a kind of social network of scientists in this field.
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If that site resembles a social network, then the scientific community has its LinkedIn: a project called ResearchGate , this is a serious social network where you can track the links between the scientific works of various authors in related disciplines.
“Communication between scientists accelerates the spread of new knowledge. Science is cooperation, and scientific social networks help and improve such cooperation, ”says ResearchGate, which already has 180,000 registered users and aims to build something called Science 2.0.
Now scientists are thinking about how to improve collaboration with the help of new tools such as Google Wave. In their opinion, the main force of “Waves” is in automation, so that scientific documents for keywords will automatically “be sucked into” thematic waves, which will greatly facilitate the search for materials in a particular area and stimulate communication among specialists.
How do Russian scientists communicate?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/76917/
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